Wrist Proprioception in Adults with and without Subacute Stroke

Proprioception is critical to motor control and functional status but has received limited study early after stroke. Patients admitted to an inpatient rehabilitation facility for stroke (n = 18, mean(±SD) 12.5 ± 6.6 days from stroke) and older healthy controls (n = 19) completed the Wrist Position S...

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Published in:Brain sciences 2022-12, Vol.13 (1), p.31
Main Authors: Young, Brittany M, Yadav, Rishika, Rana, Shivam, Kim, Won-Seok, Liu, Camellia, Batth, Rajan, Sakthi, Shivani, Farahmand, Eden, Han, Simon, Patel, Darshan, Luo, Jason, Ramsey, Christina, Feldman, Marc, Cardoso-Ferreira, Isabel, Holl, Christina, Nguyen, Tiffany, Brinkman, Lorie, Su, Michael, Chang, Tracy Y, Cramer, Steven C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cognitive ability
Consent
Motor task performance
neurorehabilitation
Proprioception
Quality of life
recovery
Rehabilitation
sensory
Stroke
Wrist
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Summary:Proprioception is critical to motor control and functional status but has received limited study early after stroke. Patients admitted to an inpatient rehabilitation facility for stroke (n = 18, mean(±SD) 12.5 ± 6.6 days from stroke) and older healthy controls (n = 19) completed the Wrist Position Sense Test (WPST), a validated, quantitative measure of wrist proprioception, as well as motor and cognitive testing. Patients were serially tested when available (n = 12, mean 11 days between assessments). In controls, mean(±SD) WPST error was 9.7 ± 3.5° in the dominant wrist and 8.8 ± 3.8° in the nondominant wrist (p = 0.31). In patients with stroke, WPST error was 18.6 ± 9° in the more-affected wrist, with abnormal values present in 88.2%; and 11.5 ± 5.6° in the less-affected wrist, with abnormal values present in 72.2%. Error in the more-affected wrist was higher than in the less-affected wrist (p = 0.003) or in the dominant (p = 0.001) and nondominant (p < 0.001) wrist of controls. Age and BBT performance correlated with dominant hand WPST error in controls. WPST error in either wrist after stroke was not related to age, BBT, MoCA, or Fugl-Meyer scores. WPST error did not significantly change in retested patients. Wrist proprioception deficits are common, bilateral, and persistent in subacute stroke and not explained by cognitive or motor deficits.
ISSN:2076-3425
2076-3425
DOI:10.3390/brainsci13010031